Instant meals, Instant noodles!

If you are too lazy to cook for your dinner, if you are not borned to be a good cook, or if you want to make Thai dish in less than ten minutes, your choice is INSTANT NOODLES. Instant noodles are very famous in far-east Asia and Southeast Asian countries. In Thailand, MAMA is the most popular brand due to there are wide ranges of tastes and flavours and the cheap price. You can have a delicous Thai dish in less than ten minutes. Other brands are Wai Wai, Yum Yum, etc. The Japanese, Korean, Malaysian and Vietnam are less spicy than Thai brands. But Thai brands also have non-spicy and vegetarian menu for you.
Normally, you tear the envelops, put noodle and seasonings all together in a bowl, add hot water, close it with cover for three minutes and then add meat, chicken, or fish balls, shrimp and/or vegetables if you like (they has to be boiled or done before if you choose this quick method). Someone and some menus will ask you to boil every thing on the pot for three minutes or less or in the microwave (use microwave-proven container). That's it. Some menu are dried one such as Pad-Thai. You have to add hot water and wait three minutes, pour out the water and then add the seasonings, add vegetables and meat that you like.

Mama product range
Tom Yum Koong (King Prawn Spicy Soup) noodles-spicy(add shrimp or fishballs)
Moo Sub(Minced Pork) flavoured soup noodles-little spicy(add minced pork or anything you like)
Moo Sub Tom Yum (Hot and Sour Soup with minced pork)-spicy (add minced pork, lime juice as you like)
Ped Pa Loh (Duck with five spcie soup) noodles-not spicy (add roasted or boiled duck)
Yen Ta Fo (White rice noodles with red sauce)-little spicy(add fishballs, cuttle fish, morning glory)
Pad- Thai (dry rice noodles with sweet chilli sauce)-little spicy (add bean sprouts)
etc.

You can buy these from Oriental, Chinese, Thai or Malay super markets in your town. Or for Thai students, they usually bring them from Thailand because they are much cheaper but space and weight- occupying for your travel.

We can adapt the recipe using these noodles as basic ingredient such as Yum Mama (hot salad with noodles), Pad Mama (fried mama) and so on. We just use the instant noodles because it is easy to find and it is less time to cook because they are semi-processed for nearly instant used.

WARNING; ONE THING TO BE NOTED: MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE OR MSG IS ADDED IN ALL FLAVOURED. SO IF YOU ARE NOT FOND OF IT, YOU HAVE TO AVOID THESE INSTANT NOODLES MENU.

There is so much controversial about MSG as food additive. Anyway, it contained sodium, so it should be avoided in hypertensive patients too. Water and salt restriction for edematous patients (heart failure, renal failure and liver disease) make instant noodles menu inappropriate too. Contact your doctors if you are allergic to any ingredients, have any underlying medical conditions before have these menu.